Monthly Archives: June 2015

2A have been learning about all the different community workers in Guildford that can help them. They have discovered all about the police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, builders and of course the people who work in a school. To be creative, 2A decided to present the information they know about their favourite community worker. They are still a work in progress but 3 students have completed theirs. Please have a look at what they have done.

When you have finished your blog post you need to read these questions and discuss with a partner.

What have you achieved?
What are you pleased with?
What will you be working on for next term?
What are you looking forward to?

The teachers will choose a few people to comment on this post so be prepared to answer if you are chosen.

Things you need to do today:
1) check the edited posts by clicking the comments, make changes and complete your post
2) check that you have saved your work using the appropriate ‘safe name’ on the Internet
3) create an avatar using a webtool called Doppelme. You should find the link on the sidebar.

This semester 34P have enjoyed using technology to help them learn new things in literacy. The blog has been a great place for the students to collaborate and take control of their own learning. The teachers are extremely proud of how they have developed their technology skills and how they are now using the blog as a stepping stone to other learning avenues. We can’t wait to see what they come up with in Semester 2.
Here are some Prezi’s That the students made in response to the previous post – 3/4 P Predicting Task

What an amazing 3 days…..I wonder if some of these images bring back memories.

What else do you remember?
What was your favourite part?
If you didn’t go what did you learn back at school?

What stuck with me?
The history and memories shared at the Australian War Memorial. With amazing dioramas and artefacts which tell the untold stories. Walking into the tomb of the unknown soldier resonated with me in particular.

Seeing the smiles on children’s faces as they play and learn about snow for the first time.

WILF
* navigate to the Prezi Website and follow instructions to set up a free accounthttps://prezi.com/login/
* use the front cover, the blurb and your knowledge about the author to make at least 3 predictions about this text
* justify your predictions by giving reasons
* present your predictions in Prezi

TIB – Good readers make predictions using different parts of a text and can share and justify their thoughts and opinions creatively.

Remember to use your time wisely. You need to complete this task today.

Check out how students in 56T have organised their knowledge about the government in response to the previous post. I am impressed with how much they have learnt. I wonder what new information they will teach you.

As most of Stage 3 will be travelling to Canberra next week we would like to make sure you will be able to answer all of the questions that you will be asked during the trip. Even if you are not going it is important to learn about our government system and how our nation is run. You never know….you might even see the prime minister while you are there!

Can you use your safe internet skills to complete today’s challenge?
Miss Ali Khan tells me that you are learning about the difference between narrative writing and persuasive writing.
These are 2 reasons people write. We call them text purposes.
All good writers organise their ideas before writing them down. These days we can use webtools to help us do this. Check out my popplet about text purposes.

Organising ideas in popplet

Popplet is another webtool like bubblus – http://popplet.com/ Find the link on the blog sidebar.

Look at how I have organised my ideas……however, it is not finished. This is where you come in.

WALT – effectively use webtools to organise ideas

WILF:
• access blog
• access webtool
• subject bubble
• 2 purpose bubbles
• include at least 3 vocabulary or grammatical features
• include at least 1 point about the structure of the text
• include at least 2 points that support the purpose
• save ideas

TIB: Good Writers organise their thoughts effectively using technology to support them.